"T" Is for Tiger

New faces came to Story Hour this morning, and that was a good thing as the regulars were unable to attend. They were all sadly missed and I hope to see some of them again next week.

The children weren't too sure about heading outside without putting on coats [to check the weather] but I assured them we wouldn't stay out long. As soon as we came back inside we determined that the symbol to put up was cloudy as we couldn't see the sun at all this morning.

Even though none of the children had been at our last session I reviewed the letter "M" and the word "MOO" that was on the board. I then wrote the letter "T" and Tess immediately recognized it as the beginning letter to her name. Good job, Tess!  I also told them that it was going to start the name of our animal for today... tiger.  

We then sat down to read the book, Who Is the Beast? by Keith Baker. It was one of our Story Hour BIG books, and the jungle illustrations were absolutely wonderful. At first the children thought the 'beast' was naughty and frightful, but as the story developed we learned, and so did the tiger, that he was just like many of the other beasts [creatures] of the jungle. The children had a lot of fun finding the animal eyes, ears, tails, etc., hidden in the jungle.

Everyone was so good during our reading of the story that it was then time to get up and do some wiggling around. As everyone was new I decided the best way to do that was to use the bubbles once again. It worked beautifully! The children could take turns blowing bubbles, but mostly they were happiest just trying to catch or pop them and there were lots of giggles.

Then it was off to the table to create our tiger faces. We made the tiger's black face stripes by putting down a drop of black paint and blowing it with a straw.  We then added ears, green eyes [to match the tiger's in the book] and fuzzy whiskers. They turned out so cute.

Our morning ended with a matching and counting game. We each had a sheet with rows of  wild animals on them. I had created a die with a different animal on each side. I also had a matching regular die. The children took turns rolling both dice and then finding the animal that was on top, figuring out the number on top of the second die, then marking off that many of the specific animal on their sheet. When a row was filled they received a prize... and everyone ended up with a prize.

Before we called it a morning we had some animal crackers to eat and we received a tiger picture with the letter "T" on it to take home and color.

Thank you, Niesha, for taking pictures on your phone this morning.

We hope to see everyone back next week when our theme is farm animals.
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Children's Librarian,
Mitzi